The Silver Card - Part 8

"We will play whatever part that you wish of us on the battlefield," Penelope said. "Though, I am sure you understand, the Sea Serpents have their own ways. If you give us what you would call your idea of victory, when all else fails, we can work to pursue simply that."

"Naturally, I am aware of such things. Working with mercenaries is always the same. There are those that would call bringing mercenaries into honour battles such as this shameful, but I am not such a man. I have only one goal that I wish to accomplish, and that is claiming the head of that young bastard Count Ivorn. Centuries of feuding will be settled – that is what he wished for! But it will not be the happy ending that he supposed!"